More than a century after he was marched to the gallows, there is still something radioactive about Roger Casement, a name that continues to emit a faint crackle in British-Irish relations. He was knighted in 1911 by King George V for distinguished imperial service, but then embraced radical Irish nationalism and sought German help for the 1916 Easter Rising. The British government made sure that when the noose went around his neck and the lever was pulled, he would drop not into martyrdom, but disgrace. He was not only a traitor but, as a cabinet memo put it, a pervert
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